LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Price of Milk. Now that the supply of milk is becoming increasingly plentiful, consumers in Palmerston North will pay 3d a pint or 5d a quart for it, delivered, during the summer months. Cream will cost 2s a pint. Dance at Kuripuni. An enjoyable dance was held in the Church of the Epiphany Hall last evening under the auspices of the Ladies’ Guild. Jack Barnes’s Rhythm Boys provided the music for the dancing, the Rev. T. V. Pearson being an able M.C. Supper was served by the ladies’ committee. Measles Precautions. The primary schools are to reopen on Monday with some precautions still in force against the spread of measles. Parents are asked to note that children who have had measles are excluded from school for fourteen days after the day on which the rash appeared and that contacts with these children are excluded for sixteen days. Wellington Competitions. In the Robert Parker Memorial piano solo, at the Wellington musical and elocutionary competitions yesterday, Miss Nona Mulvaney (Masterton), was highly commended, and Miss Gwen Greig (Masterton) commended. In the ladies radio vocal solo, Miss Leah Johnston (Masterton) was third. In the chief piano solo, Miss G. Greig tied for second place. Miss Johnston was third in the ladies’ operatic solo. Boycott of Japanese. Japanese in Singapore were practically starved of business through the boycott, said Mr I. Woolf, of Christchurch, in an address on his trip to the East at the weekly luncheon of the Christchurch Rotary Club. If a resident patronised a Japanese shop he would receive a letter from a secret Chinese committee the next day telling him that they would do all in their power to harm him, he said. However, he considered that the antipathy’ shown was not against the Japanese as individuals but against the country. Air Transport. The total sum spent on aerodrome and air route development during the year ended March 31 was £276,300, according to the annual report of the Public Works Department tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday. The report states that with the completion of new aerodromes and the improvement of existing ones, it is anticipated that extensions to present air lines and some entirely new main or feeder services will be placed in operation during the summer of 1938-39. To this end concentration has been centred during the year, particularly on developing flying fields and other facilities and aids to navigation that will provide for such new services and improve conditions on the existing ones. East Coast Railway.

A statement that the East Coast railway between Napier and Wairoa would probably be open sufficiently to carry through traffic in November was made by Mr H. L. P. Smith, district railways engineer at Napier. The sec-' tion'which concerns the Railways Department is that between Eskdale and Putorino, on which there are 19 washouts, as a result of the floods, in addition to the loss of the Esk railway bridge. The largest of the washouts is a hole 170 feet long and 70 feet deep. Mr Smith said it was vital for farmers to know when the line would be fit to carry traffic as they would then be able to order fertilisers and make arrangements for sending out like stock and wool to markets. “We may not be ready to carry the products of very early shearings, but we should be ready to carry out the bulk of the wool supply, also dairy produce,” he said. “Where is New Zealand?”

Some of his experiences, which showed that New Zealand was not known in Ceylon, were related by Mr I. Woolf, of Christchurch, in an address to the Christchurch Rotary Club. Mr Woolf said that on one occasion he was introduced to a woman, who was told that he came from New Zealand. “Where is that?” she asked, and the introducer had replied that it was in the Gulf of Mexico. When he had asked his friend, who knew where New Zealand was situated, why he had given such an answer to the woman, the latter had replied that it would have been of little use telling the woman that New Zealand was near Australia, becauses he would have asked where Australia was also. Farmers and Age Benefits. The position in relation to the payment of age benefit to a farmer who made an actual loss on his working for the year, was brought up during the Committee stages of the Social Security Bill in the House of Representatives last night. The Minister of Finance, the Hon W. Nash, made it clear that when income was taken into account in a case of that kind it would be net income. “If a man farms his land and receives an income of £5OO, but has to pay more than that in costs, what will be his position?” asked Mr J. Hargest (Opposition, Awarua). “Will that income debar him from receiving an age benefit, or will consideration be given to the fact that actually he has made nothing?” Mr Nash: “If the commissioners are satisfied that he owns the land and that he has no income, he will be entitled to receive the age benefit.” Mr Hargest: “Net or gross income?” “It is obviously net income all the time,” Mr Nash replied. An Unskilful Copy. Any mystery that may have surrounded the painting of a Maori which was recently purchased in a Sydney dealer’s shop by Mr T. H. Smith, of Wanganui, has been cleared up by the well-known Auckland artist, Mr C. F. Goldie, to whom the picture was attributed. Mr Goldie yesterday received a photograph of the picture from Wellington, and pronounced it to be a copy by some other hand of a painting by him, “A Warm Day,” which hangs in the Christchurch Art Gallery. “A Warm Day’,” said Mr Goldie, “represented the famous old chief, Patara te Tuhi, asleep in the sun with his shirt open at the neck. It was reproduced in colour a number of years ago as a supplement to the Christmas issue of the ‘Weekly Press,’ Christchurch. The reproduction enjoyed wide popularity, and numbers of prints were still to be seen all over the Dominion. The Sydney painting was clearly a copy which had been made from the reproduction. “I consider it an unskilful copy,” added Mr Goldie. “The lower part of the picture,” for example, is a gooa deal out of drawing.”